Can we safely automatically drive cars if we're blind drunk?-Renegade (January 30, 2011, 01:56 PM)
Imagine a Microsoft car! Takes 15 minutes to start -timns (February 01, 2011, 09:14 PM)
Then again, I'd rather have that than the Apple car, where you can only fill up at Apple gas stations...
Imagine a Microsoft car! Takes 15 minutes to start Then again, I'd rather have that than the Apple car, where you can only fill up at Apple gas stations...-timns (February 01, 2011, 09:14 PM)
How about if they just perfect cars that drive themselves and then it won't matter if you're drunk or blind or a dog, you'll be able to get where you want.-Deozaan (February 01, 2011, 09:10 PM)
Blindspin.A single name of a multitude of practices centered about theauto-driven auto. Flashing across the country in the sure handsof an invisible chauffeur, windows all opaque, night dark, skyhigh, tires assailing the road below like four phantombuzzsaws and starting from scratch and ending in the sameplace, and never knowing where you are going or where youhave been it is possible, for a moment, to kindle some feelingof individuality in the coldest brainpan, to produce amomentary awareness of self by virtue of an apartness from allbut a sense of motion. This is because movement throughdarkness is the ultimate abstraction of life itself. At least that's what one of the Vital Comedians said, and everybody in the place laughed.Actually now, the phenomenon known as blindspin firstbecame prevalent (as might be suspected) among certainyounger members of the community, when monitored high-ways deprived them of the means to exercise their automobilesin some of the more individualistic ways which had come tobe frowned upon by the National Traffic Control Authority.Something had to be done.It was.The first, disastrous reaction involved the simple engineeringfeat of disconnecting the broadcast control unit after one hadentered onto a monitored highway. This resulted in the car'svanishing from the ken of the monitor and passing back into thecontrol of its occupants. Jealous as a deity, a monitor will nottolerate that which denies its programmed omniscience; it willthunder and lightning in the Highway Control Station nearestthe point of last contact, sending winged seraphs in search ofthat which has slipped from sight.Often, however, this was too late in happening, for the roadsare many and well-paved. Escape from detection was, at first,relatively easy to achieve.Other vehicles, though, necessarily behave as if a rebel hasno actual existence. Its presence cannot be allowed for.Boxed-in, on a heavily-traveled section of roadway, theoffender is subject to immediate annihilation in the event of anyoverall speedup or shift in traffic pattern which involvesmovement through his theoretically vacant position. This, inthe early days of monitor-controls, caused a rapid series ofcollisions. Monitoring devices later became far more 'sophisti-cated, and mechanized 'cutoffs reduced the collision incidencesubsequent to such an action. The quality of the pulpefactionsand contusions which did occur, however, remained unaltered.The next reaction was based on a thing which had beenoverlooked because it was obvious. The monitors took peoplewhere they wanted to go only because people told them theywanted to go there. A person pressing a random series of co-ordinates, without reference to any map, would either be leftwith a stalled automobile and a "RECHECK YOUR CO-ORDINATES" light, or would suddenly be whisked awayin any direction. The latter possesses a certain romantic appealin that it offers speed, unexpected sights, and free hands. Also,it is perfectly legal; and it is possible to navigate all over twocontinents in this manner, if one is possessed of sufficientwherewithal and gluteal stamina.As is the case in all such matters, the practice diffusedupwards through the age brackets. Schoolteachers who onlydrove on Sundays fell into disrepute as selling points for usedautos. Such is the way a world ends, said the entertainer.End or no, the car designed to move on monitored highwaysis a mobile efficiency unit, complete with latrine, cupboard,refrigerator compartment, and gaming table. It also sleeps twowith ease and four with some crowding. On occasion, three canbe a real crowd....
Imagine a Microsoft car! Takes 15 minutes to start Then again, I'd rather have that than the Apple car, where you can only fill up at Apple gas stations...-timns (February 01, 2011, 09:14 PM)Hahahah~! I suppose gas for Linux cars is free, but you need to refine it yourself...-Renegade (February 01, 2011, 10:21 PM)
Imagine a Microsoft car! Takes 15 minutes to start Then again, I'd rather have that than the Apple car, where you can only fill up at Apple gas stations...-timns (February 01, 2011, 09:14 PM)Hahahah~! I suppose gas for Linux cars is free, but you need to refine it yourself...-Renegade (February 01, 2011, 10:21 PM)And allow anybody else who wanted to use it to do so. -40hz (February 01, 2011, 10:26 PM)
Imagine a Microsoft car! Takes 15 minutes to start Then again, I'd rather have that than the Apple car, where you can only fill up at Apple gas stations...-timns (February 01, 2011, 09:14 PM)Hahahah~! I suppose gas for Linux cars is free, but you need to refine it yourself...-Renegade (February 01, 2011, 10:21 PM)And allow anybody else who wanted to use it to do so. -40hz (February 01, 2011, 10:26 PM)No, anyone who wanted to clone it to do so , you get to keep your copy. And if you come up with a wicked new navigation or nitro system, you have to share its specs so others can clone it -vixay (February 01, 2011, 11:14 PM)
